Aerial networks, composed of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) acting as Wi-Fi access
points or cellular base stations, are emerging as an interesting solution to provide on …

In geographical routing, each node takes forwarding decisions as per position information of
neighboring nodes stored in neighbor table. Owing to the highly dynamic behavior of UAV …

The utilization of UAVs in various fields has led to the development of flying ad hoc network
(FANET) technology. In a network environment with highly dynamic topology and frequent …

A multi-UAV network is a wireless multi-hop network consisting of several Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) that are supposed to communicate with a centralized control center. Due to …

In modern warfare, achieving strikes against military targets commonly involves utilizing
methods such as fire coverage and missile precision guidance. While effective, fire coverage …

Providing Internet service above the clouds is of ever-increasing interest and in this context
aeronautical ad-hoc networking (AANET) constitutes a promising solution. However, the …

This paper introduces a novel distributed algorithm designed to optimize the deployment of
access points within Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) for better service quality in …

Clustering methods are promising tools for ensuring the network scalability and
maintainability of large-scale flying ad hoc networks (FANETs). However, due to the high …

Transparent topology is common in many mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) such as
vehicle ad hoc networks (VANETs), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ad hoc networks, and …

Neighbor discovery (ND) is a key step in wireless ad hoc network, which directly affects the
efficiency of wireless networking. Improving the speed of ND has always been the goal of …